Does anyone remember the small film just like the video "Mile Sur Mera Tumhara" in which all the famous athletes of India at that time are running all over the country taking turns holding the Olympic torch.

In the end PT Usha is running with deer. And all this with the song Chariots of Fire playing. I wish i could get hold of that as well!

Somebody asked for details of Pandit Pradeep's CD. I sincerely appereciate the spirit. The CD is tiltled 'The Genius of Pradeep' by RPG. If some patriotic guys buy this why should I need to post this to kazaa.

Incidentally, while trying to follow the Mush assassination attempt yesterday, I was watching PTV. In one of the short breaks, they played a 'patriotic song' of theirs. I was shocked that they had copied Pradeep's song Hum Laye Hain Toofan se Kashti Nikal Ke, Is Desh ko rakhnaa mere bachchon sambhal ke..' almost word to word. They only changed the words like 'desh' into 'mulk' and removed references to 'Bharat', 'Hind', 'Bapu' etc. The tune itself was identical to the original one by Hemant Kumar to the last note.

Is there no way to ensure that intellectual property is not blatantly stolen like this and that too by a Government?

In fact, they have made this into a very famous Paki song in praise of the "Quaid", and they sing it with the exact same tune. I was shocked to hear this on local Paki radio in the days leading up to Dec. 25.

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The plagiarised Paki song is the first one on this page: ("Aee Quaid-e-Azam Tera Aehsan Hay")

Thanks for pointing this out. It fills me with both rage and amusement at the same time. Why the rage is quite obvious - both the blatant plagiarism and also the conversion of a song extolling high moral values into one with a communal message.

Amusement because even in plagiarism, these sorry souls could not exhibit any creativity or originality. The central theme of every single paragraph of Pradeep's poem is lifted and converted/distorted to suit their purpose. Pradeep has a reference to Jawaharlal (in a stanza saying how the people from all walks of life gave up their lifes of comfort to follow Gandhiji in the struggle for independence). Jawaharlal is replaced by Quaid-e-Millat (Liaquat Ali Khan). And the same in other paragraphs.

I actually loved the 'Mera Bharat Mahan' series (I don't think that was the name, I am just calling them those) created at the fag end of Rajiv Gandhi's term.

1. The musical (no lyrics) piece with sportspersons doing a relay run with a torch. 2. Mile Sur Mera Tumhara in multiple languages with famous people from the worlds of art and sports from all over the country 3. Desh Raag (both versions)

Originally posted by Sridhar:I actually loved the 'Mera Bharat Mahan' series (I don't think that was the name, I am just calling them those) created at the fag end of Rajiv Gandhi's term.

2. Mile Sur Mera Tumhara in multiple languages with famous people from the worlds of art and sports from all over the country

Dudes, Never thought I'd post to this thread, but it seems like there is no thread on this forum that is not interesting.

Firstly, here's my idea of patriotic Indian _music_. Record the sound of an Agni II (or a Brahmos) lifting off, with a background chorus from Sukhois revving their engines. The finale of the music would be the boom of the Agni/Prithvi warhead (conventional or otherwise) exploding on the target .

I really liked the 'Mile Sur Mera..' song. The amazing part is that the song has lines from atleast 10 languages, perhaps more.I can recall the Hindi and Telugu lines:

Hey Vicky, Thanks a lot for bringing "Mera Karma Tu" to our attention. I owe you one . I had forgotten about it for 10 years now...until today I saw your post and searched frantically for it - now I cant get it off my player.

Originally posted by Sridhar:Incidentally, while trying to follow the Mush assassination attempt yesterday, I was watching PTV. In one of the short breaks, they played a 'patriotic song' of theirs. I was shocked that they had copied Pradeep's song Hum Laye Hain Toofan se Kashti Nikal Ke, Is Desh ko rakhnaa mere bachchon sambhal ke..' almost word to word. They only changed the words like 'desh' into 'mulk' and removed references to 'Bharat', 'Hind', 'Bapu' etc. The tune itself was identical to the original one by Hemant Kumar to the last note.

Is there no way to ensure that intellectual property is not blatantly stolen like this and that too by a Government?

In all three examples of plagiarization, songs that try to teach Indian children about universally desirable principles (peace, love, respect for all faiths etc.) are converted into Islamist, militarist songs for their ba$tardized versions. Shows what depths the Pakistanis sank to very early on and continue to be in.